Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

